Kids Summer Camp Stationery Kit
Author: kwaddell | Filed under: Training Thursday Apr 10,2008Author: Wes Waddell
Here’s a great idea for your kids heading off to camp this summer. How about sending them on their way with their own colorful personalized digital stationery kit and a book of stamps? Now it’s easy for them to write you and all their friends.
How can digital stationery help? Easy… you create the designs or use one from any “Free Stationery” download website, you customize the design with their name and address and then simply print the blank pages on your printer. You can even create a supply of matching envelopes with matching designs.
How cool is that?
The best part is that it’s only pennies a page and no one there will have anything like it. You might even send along a few totally blank pages with no name or address so that they can share with their cabin or bunk mates.
Here’s the complete package. Before it’s time to head for summer camp, help each of your children choose a free stationery design from one of the computer stationery websites or if you are good with your computer… help them design their own. Either way, make sure to put their name and address on the stationery (kind of like a business letter does) so that if it gets missplaced it can find it’s way back home easily.
If you want, you can also custom design envelopes to match. No matter what, make sure you preaddress the envelopes with your home address and a couple with addresses from any freinds or family they want to write to while they are gone. That way, you know that they won’t forget an address or make a typo that sends it to the wrong address.
Now, simply pack it all away in a sturdy zip-lock bag with a couple of pens or pencils, and first-class postage stamps. If you followed the suggestions above to address the envelopes in advance, then there’s no need for an address book here that could get lost.
If you happen to drive your child to summer camp, find the camp store while you are there and let your children choose a few post cards of the camp to go with their digital stationery prints; that way they’ll be more likely to write a quick note to relatives and friends. Once the summer is over, any left over stationery can be given to new friends along with their eMail address, so they can keep in touch once they return home.
Encourage (not force) your kids to write to you at least a couple of times a week while at camp. Try and get them to fill you in on the weeks activities and new friends. DON”T throw those letters away after you read them! Save the letters in a bundle or even better yet, add them to a scrapbook with photos and brochure pieces. Then, you can give them to your children when they reach adulthood.
Digital cameras and memory cards are so cheap these days and can capture things that just can’t be put into words. Digital scrapbooks can also be made into real hardbound books that can be treasured for generations to come. The perfect combination to go with the digital stationery, digital camera and digital photos.
By making it easy for your kids to communicate with family and friends while away at summer camp, you also make the separation easier and the child less likely to get a case of the home sick blues. It also makes it easier on mom knowing that their child is safe, having a great time, but is thinking of her often.
About the author:
Wes Waddell is a father of two, grandfather of 5 and owns www.Free-Stationery.com and it’s parent site www.1-Computer-Stationery.com. Hundreds of FREE Stationery templates in multiple formats along with FREE Training on how to create your own custom digital stationeries usine FREE Software.
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5 Responses to “Kids Summer Camp Stationery Kit”
What a wonderful idea, the kids stationery kit for summer camp. My oldest leaves on the 5th and I’m putting the stationery and letter writting kit together today using your wonderful kids and camping sets. Still can’t believe you just give this away for free! You guys are the best!
Eileen Taylor
Kathy,
Thanks you so much for not only the beautiful scrapbook template downloads, but for the kind support and understanding. I’m learning how to scrapbook and it’s fun thanks to you and your hubby. My family is so impressed by my new digital scrap pages, they want me to make extras for them to hang on their walls. You two are the best and I tall all my friends about PrincessCrafts.com now.
Just had to let you know how wonderful your kids stationery kit for summer camp is. My daughter loves it and wants more for her friends.
Cindi Lund
Your kids summer camp stationery kit idea is just so wonderful. The camp my kids go to doesn’t have internet so letters to and from home is still the only communications they get. This is going to make their summer.
Sandy
Love your free digital stationery Kathy. I use it more then ever during the summer as I keep friends and family updated on our travels and what we are up to. I even have one of your floral stationery set as my email template. Thank you so much for makeing these available. You really do have the #1 Stationery Site on the web in my book.
Dotty Tiffins
Tapeka, KA